{"id":5044,"date":"2022-03-23T20:40:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cannabisnow.com\/?p=59307"},"modified":"2022-03-23T20:40:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-23T20:40:51","slug":"the-benefits-of-snorting-cannabis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/?p=5044","title":{"rendered":"The Benefits of Snorting Cannabis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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About a year ago, a new cannabis product, Canna Bumps, appeared on the California market, encouraging people to snort their cannabis. The product managed a remarkable feat: uniting the otherwise splintered and fractious legalization movement and the marijuana industry like never before. Cannabumps refers to a crystalized, high-potency THC resembling a fine white powder that California company THC Living<\/a> cheekily packaged in a small clear vial along with a little spoon, meant to be snorted. Everybody hated it. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t legalize marijuana for this<\/a>,\u201d was one common line of critique. \u201cProducts like Canna Bumps don\u2019t merely offend the good taste of consumers and colleagues in the cannabis industry. They do real harm,\u201d wrote Leafly\u2019s Bruce Barcott last May<\/a>. \u201cThey help keep cannabis illegal for hundreds of millions of Americans\u2026They hurt medical marijuana patients and cannabis consumers across the nation.<\/p>\n

For anyone living in an artificial \u201cgood drugs, bad drugs\u201d binary trying to push mainstream acceptance of cannabis, this was (so to speak) over the line.<\/p>\n

However, despite the product\u2019s controversial nature, a recently published<\/a> study reveals that Canna Bumps might have been ahead of its time. Turns out, snorting cannabis is even more scientifically sound than most cannabis available on the adult-use market, perhaps in spite of its marketing. And since it\u2019s more efficient than smoking or eating, as more of the drug is absorbed in a shorter period of time, it\u2019s arguably far more \u201cmedicinal.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Science of Snorting<\/strong> Cannabis<\/h4>\n

It\u2019s long been accepted that smoking or vaporizing cannabis, while extremely popular, is also sloppy and inefficient, as well as unhealthy. Cannabinoids are burned away and lost in the smoke; tar and unhealthy carcinogens are inhaled into the lungs. <\/p>\n

Eating cannabis<\/a> is certainly healthier, but since the effects take much longer to be felt, edibles aren\u2019t ideal for quick relief. For a while, cannabis suppositories were offered up as the healthiest and \u201cmost medicinal\u201d method of consuming cannabis, particularly for patients with extreme nausea and\/or breathing issues, for whom eating or smoking presented barriers. But this was also the least practical method. <\/p>\n

That leaves nasal inhalation as a possible and likely vector. And as a study<\/a> of a \u201cnanoparticle cannabinoid spray for oromucosal delivery\u201d published in the journal Medical Cannabis and Cannabinoids<\/em> in January found, nasal inhalation\u2014or \u201csnorting,\u201d or the same way allergy sufferers (well hello, spring and pollen) consume their glucocorticoids\u2013-is fast-acting and efficient, while presenting no issues for people with lung or stomach problems. <\/p>\n

One metric for drug-delivery efficiency is a value called \u201carea under the curve,\u201d or AUC. An AUC value represents \u201ctotal drug exposure across time,\u201d or how much of a drug the body can absorb within a certain period. AUC is one method of determining bioavailability. And \u201cdespite administration of a lower dose,\u201d \u201chigher AUC values\u201d were detected in 12 healthy subjects who tried the oromucosal cannabinoid spray.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the sprays resulted in \u201cno serious adverse effects\u201d and \u201conly minor psychotropic effects\u201d at the dosage given (12 sprays, 3.96 mg of THC, according to the study). <\/p>\n

That low level might not satisfy Canna Bumps customers, who are presumably trying to get really ripped, really fast\u2014something anyone promoting, or at least tolerating dabbing, can\u2019t in any good faith condemn. But the takeaway is clear: Snorting cannabis works. Snorting is even good.<\/p>\n

Snort Em if You Got \u2018Em<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Cannabis flower still rules both the medicinal and adult-use markets. But after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic\u2014which came on the heels of the vaporizer-lung crisis<\/a>\u2014\u201cpeople also care about their lungs more than ever,\u201d observed Bob Langlais, the head curator at Massachusetts-based Lucida Club<\/a>, a self-described \u201ccannabis platform\u201d geared towards beginners.<\/p>\n

Many Lucida Club patrons complain about breathing issues\u2014and Langlais himself cops to being beset by chronic bronchitis after smoking, despite thoroughly enjoying the immediate delights of a hash rosin hit. Further, he\u2019s noticed a need for high-potency, non-combustible products that aren\u2019t cookies or chocolate bars, for people with diabetes or with nausea for whom eating a bunch of chocolate just isn\u2019t feasible. In this context, nasal sprays are \u201cextremely exciting,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the applications for medical cannabis are huge,\u201d Langlais said, adding that Cannabumps\u2019 downfall was their marketing strategy. \u201cI think they were onto something. I just wish they\u2019d rebranded something more marketable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ross Anderson, the chief operating officer of Austin, Texas-based CBD company Elevated Wellness<\/a>, learned that consumers may try snorting a product even if it isn\u2019t marketed that way. <\/p>\n

Elevated Wellness has a line of powdered drink mixes using nano-encapsulation technology, the same fast-acting method used in most cannabis drinks. \u201cWe had a guy from New York come in and get some\u2014and he snorted it all,\u201d Anderson recounted. When Anderson and his stunned team asked the New York guy how it went, the answer was swift and unequivocal. \u201cFantastic,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just think [snorting] is something not a lot of people think about\u2026 but it makes all the sense in the world,\u201d Anderson said. \u201cIt\u2019s so much more immediate of relief, you get considerably higher bioavailability, so you can in theory take lower doses. We do it with all these other drugs\u2014why not with cannabis?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

About a year ago, a new cannabis product, Canna Bumps, appeared on the California market, encouraging people to snort their cannabis. The product managed a remarkable feat: uniting the otherwise splintered and fractious legalization movement and the marijuana industry like never before. Cannabumps refers to a crystalized, high-potency THC resembling a fine white powder that California company THC Living cheekily packaged in a small clear vial along with a little spoon, meant to be snorted. Everybody hated it.  \u201cWe didn\u2019t legalize marijuana for this,\u201d was one common line of critique. \u201cProducts like Canna Bumps don\u2019t merely offend the good taste of consumers and… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-marijuana_information"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thcinct.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}